London's contactless Tube payment system is going global

More than 500 million journeys have been paid for using TfL's contactless system since it launched in December 2012

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The contactless payment system used on London's transport network will soon be modified for use in other cities.

A deal between Transport for London (TfL) and transportation firm Cubic will see the latter adapt the contactless ticking system and license it around the world. The deal, worth up to £15 million, will help TfL ensure fares don't rise for the next four years, the mayor's office said.

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Cubic will be given access to London's contactless system to allow it to tailor it to other transportation networks. The company first worked with TfL in 2003 to develop the technology behind Oyster and has since helped upgrade the system to support contactless payments from debit cards, Apple Pay and Android Pay.

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Outside London, CTS provides similar ticketing technology to Brisbane, Chicago, Sydney and Vancouver. The non-exclusive deal with TfL will allow the company to integrate technology developed for London's network into other transport systems.

According to TfL, more than 500 million journeys have been made by more than 12 million unique credit and debit cards since the contactless system launched on London's busses in December 2012. The technology was expanded to cover Tube and rail in September 2014 and has been used by customers from 90 different countries with one in ten contactless transactions in the UK made on TfL's network.

Cubic continues to run TfL's ticketing and fare collection services on 8,500 busses, 1,900 Underground and Overground ticket gates and 1,600 ticket machines across the network.